Shafer Hillside Select - Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 (750ml) Galego Dourado

Shafer Hillside Select - Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 (750ml) Galego DouradoCritical Acclaim 100 points Wine Advocate, Review Date: 12 2014 The 2001 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is the first of these back to back perfect wines from Shafer that, at age 13, is still a baby, but, wow, what an amazing wine. A fabulous growing season produced a wine with inky purple black color, stunning crme de cassis notes, with additional hints of lead pencil shavings, spring flowers, cedar wood and forest floor. It is full bodied,

creamy mousse

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especially antipasti and other

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and a cinnamon-spiced woodsy perfume

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A voluptuous garnet

for we found that certain vineyard blocks of Cabernet Franc will perform unpredictably better than others